Suitable for researchers and students in the field of corpus linguistics and, secondly, this title offers an introduction to corpus techniques for practitioners of discourse studies. It delves into a variety of language topics and areas including metaphor, irony, evaluation, (im)politeness, stylistics, language change and sociopolitical issues.

1. Acknowledgements; 2. Introduction; 3. Chapter 1. The two principles of discourse organisation: Chunk recall and inductive reasoning; 4. Chapter 2. Evaluation in discourse communication; 5. Chapter 3. Evaluation and control; 6. Chapter 4. Investigating rhetoric in discourse 1: Irony; 7. Chapter 5. Investigating rhetoric in discourse 2: Metaphor; 8. Chapter 6. Corpus-assisted stylistics: Investigating author style; 9. Chapter 7. Cross-linguistic discourse analysis: Investigating the representation of migrants in the UK and Italian press; 10. Chapter 8. Interactive spoken discourse 1: Managing the message; 11. Chapter 9. Interactive spoken discourse 2: CADS & (im)politeness; 12. Chapter 10. Modern diachronic corpus-assisted discourse studies (MD-CADS) 1: Comparisons over time in lexical grammar and discourse practices; 13. Chapter 11. Modern diachronic corpus-assisted discourse studies (MD-CADS) 2: Comparisons over time of social, political and cultural issues; 14. Chapter 12. Conclusion; 15. Appendix: Resources; 16. References; 17. Author index; 18. Subject index